[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_splatting

What I love about gaussian splats is the way they degrade - instead of a hard cutoff or LoD changing spheres into cubes etc., they get increasingly "dreamy" - the basic idea is still there, just less detailed.

Take for example this scene:

https://superspl.at/scene/e721ea7c

If you navigate closer to the trees, things around you become blurry - as if the very fabric of reality unraveled.

Apples model to generate Gaussian splats from a single image. Takes about 30 seconds on an M1 Pro.

It falls apart once you move too much, but for a little side-wiggling or a second-eye view for VR, it's great. And looks a lot better than the old approach of depth map + vertex shaders that I use in https://github.com/combatwombat/tiefling. But ml-sharp has 2.6 GB weights, a bit too big to run in the browser.

As I scrolled through the website, I was even more impressed with this one though!

https://superspl.at/scene/c67edb74

But something looks off: the red area around the "seeds" is pushed towards the center of the strawberry - or that at least the outer most layer is somewhat transparent and some deeper layers are visible.

I have a question about perhaps the most boring aspect of this strawberry: the license. you write, "You can download it under CC BY license, but attribution is appreciated rather than required." IANAL, but I'm pretty sure you can't license your work CC-BY and then waive the BY requirement in the description. Rather, you'd have to license it with something more permissive like CC0 and request attribution if you want attribution to be optional. Is that right?

The filesize of a 3d animated splat is seemingly very small, and the method enables ~arbitrary FPS. But it seems the setup required to record it is still huge and expensive, which limits its usefulness.

Even with that there are some interesting use cases, eg. I'd love to be able to watch concerts this way, and freely move around the stage and crowd from any angle.

(I'm ... still not sure what I'm looking at on TFA, and whether or not my browser configuration fails to fully present the site as intended.... OK, if all you're seeing is a blurred image of a strawberry, yes, you'll want to enable a bunch of JS resources. I'm using uMatrix, several hosts must be enabled.)

I'm wondering if the splat community has decided this paper is valuable -- https://github.com/fraunhoferhhi/Self-Organizing-Gaussians -- looking at all the detail in the strawberry splat made me wonder how small one can get the download, and what the current state of the art is for compression.

Focus stacking generally is not perfect process and can lead to artifacts/errors and I'd imagine those can then compound when stacked images are used for 3dgs. Also the image focus actually provides some depth data in itself that could be useful?

vs

48meg

Splats make pretty pictures but they are 10x the data for pretty much anything I've seen.

3gig for this one: https://superspl.at/scene/8429e5e2

I guess the number of samples required to generate a GS is the constraint now, but maybe that will get solved.

If my old phone can render it with fairly high frame rate, I’m sure a full game with realistic graphics would work well on a mid/high end PC.

(Can we do a Gaussian Splat of the setup of the photograph for the Gaussian Splat of the Strawberry?)

> Oops!

> navigator.sendBeacon is not a function

And it shouldn't be one.

Yes. I knoweth what "splats" are: They are splats of fuzzy blobs on the display surface.

What's the matter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0MGoFaIiWs - WARNING - heavily adult lyrics and a loud starting "MOTHERFU*AAAAAAS" right off the top.